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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not particularly, the top boy players go into the developmental academies run by DC United, Potomac or if somewhat less serious about soccer or a little less skilled, top teams at clubs like Bethesda, and for the girls, the top players mostly join ECNL teams at clubs like McLean, Freestate and McLean.  ODP used to be where the top players went to train together, but now the quality has dropped significantly, the program is expensive for generally mediocre coaching, too much driving, and college coaches don't show up to ODP events.  The college recruiting is all at the top tournaments, unless a kid makes it to national team pools.  Can go via ODP but most don't go that route to national teams any longer, are directly recruited from being seen at tournaments and are invited to national team camps.

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I would also add that if you play on the academY teams for HS you cannot play soccer for your HS team. [/quote]

Yes, when the Academy program was announced, they made a big deal out of saying it would not interfere with high school soccer.  Never mind!  So thousands of kids each year cannot play for their high school team on the off chance it will help develop 1-2 world class players a little more quickly.  There do appear to be loopholes, though -- some Academy players still managed to suit up for their high school teams last year.[/quote]

It appears to be "scholarship" driven.  In this area kids in private schools seemed to get waivers to play for their HS teams while the public school kids could not. Sort of unfair, at least here where a good number of the academy players go to private schools.  I know the academy players at our public school are unhappy about not being able to play for the school team.

That being said, if you are interested in men's college soccer at very selective schools you need to be on an academy team or a national level club team (or better yet not be from the US, there are quite a few international recruits). [/quote]
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at our private the boys that wanted to play academy were npt able to get waivers. It seemed that the only boys that got waivers were ones that had gotten into HS based on playing soccer. These waivers were granted on a very few cases. [/quote]

So, are you saying that there were multiple boys from your private HS that made it into Academy soccer? And then, once they made it to Academy, only a few kids received the waivers? How would the Academy know who had gotten into the private HS just for soccer reasons? 
What private school has such a talented pool  of soccer players? Most of the talent I have seen have been public school kids (more of them, I guess).[/quote]

Sorry i wasn't more clear. There were a couple of boys from our HS that made academy teams. From what they were told about boys from their respective academy teams was that the few boys that got waivers had issues related to requirements to play soccer for their schools. It was very few.

however, if you haven't seen Gonzaga, you need to go see a game. They are a nationally ranked team Also 5 out of the top 10 soccer teams are privates.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/sports/highschools/all-met/statistics/soccer-rankings.html

It will be interesting to see what happens in the next few years as the top talent will probably not be playing for any school public or private if they want to be recruited for D1 college soccer programs. 
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Thank you for your explanation. That makes more sense now.
In the DC area. which teams are Nationally known? For my son's age, I know the Bethesda Blue team is ranked nationally. When I google for the rankings, every list is different and many MD teams in are out of the Baltimore area. Maybe I saw one other Potomac team.  
The Wash Post rankings are just for DC. If some of those DC schools had to play Whitman, Churchill, BCC, I'm pretty sure the public school teams would win.

But I do think it seems like Academy severely limits the kids with their restrictions. [/quote]

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